With most of Western Massachusetts getting back to normal after a devastating Halloween weekend storm, parts of some Hampden County municipalities still remained in the dark early Saturday morning.

According to National Grid -- the utility company that initially reported earlier power restoration times only to repeatedly extend those estimates for several days -- the new predicted restoration time for communities still without power one week after the the Oct. 29 storm is just before midnight today, Saturday, Nov. 5.

While some storm-weary utility customers remained skeptical about these latest predictions, the latest word from the utility company is that power would return by 11:59 p.m. Saturday to several hard-hit Hampden County communities east of Springfield.

These municipalities include Brimfield, East Longmeadow, Hampden, Holland, Monson, Palmer and Wilbraham. The little town of Wales, which was pummeled by the powerful nor'easter that killed electricity to around 3 million people nationwide, is expected to regain power a few minutes earlier than the other communities, or at around 11:45 p.m. Saturday.

In the semi-rural town of Hampden, located just a few miles southeast of Springfield, more than half of the community -- or 1,133 of the town's 2,124 National Grid customer's -- were still without power Saturday morning.

Meanwhile, power had been returned to only around 274 of Wales' 996 customers, while 814 of Brimfield's 1,736 customers still had no electricity.

In Wilbraham, 2,691 of the town's 5,970 National Grid customers were without power, while 1,942 of East Longmeadow's 6,571customers will once again have to light candles or throw another log in the fireplace if they desire light or heat this morning.

Also without power were 450 of Holland's 1,482 customers; 1,237 of Monson's 3,743 customers; and 2,388 of Palmer's 6,333 customers.